Cartridge-holder.



PATENTED OUT. 29. 1907.

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AARON L. HOOKETT, or BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF To WILLIAM H. MOORE, or JASPER, ALABAMA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1907'.

Application filed June 20, 1904. Serial No. 213,318- Renewed March 27, 1907- Serial No. 364,865.

To all-whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON L. HOCKET'I, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cartridge holders designed to be used for feeding cartridges to magazine guns, and

the objects of said invention are: To provide a simple, .inexpensive and efficient device for the purpose referred to which may be quickly and accurately placed in position at the feed opening in the magazine; which will be provided with means for holding the discharge end of the device in proper position at the feed opening in the magazine to insure a reliable guide for the cartridges to be fed; and which will be provided with means for preventing the cartridges within the holder from sliding out of the holder when detached from the magazine. These objects are attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my cartridge holder connected to the magazine at the feed openingtherein, and in position for dropping the cartridges into said magazine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the holder. Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the discharge end of the holder. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the holder on the line 11, Fig. 3.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts wherever they occur in the different views of the drawing.

The numeral 1 designates the magazine of the gun or firearm, and 2 is the feed opening therein, said feed opening being of the required size and contour to admit a cartridge sidewise into said magazine. My cartridge holder consists of a single piece of sheet metal having its edges bent over to form the side flanges 3, for retaining the cartridges in an upright position therein, the flanges of the cartridges being free to slide under the flanges 3 of the holder and-being retained therein by said flanges. At the outer end of the holder a stop 4 is formed by bending the end of the metal over into the guideway and under the extremities of the flanges 3. At the opposite end of the holder, which may be called the discharge end of said holder, the bottom 5 of the guideway is transversely curved, as at 6, to conform to the curvature of the magazine, in order that when the holder is in place for feeding its cartridges into the magazine the discharge end of the holder will fit closely against the side wall of the magazine. The

. side flanges 3, at the discharge end are cut away or reduced in width to form the shoulders 8, which are designed to fit accurately against the side edges of the feed opening at the lower portion thereof, where the flanges of the cartridges are admitted.

To lill the magazine with cartridges from my holder, it is merely necessary that the discharge end be connected to the food opening in the magazine, and by elevating the outer end of the holder the cartridges will drop, one by one, into the magazine, in an obvious manner.

To prevent the cartridges from sliding out of the holder at the discharge end, I may cut a tongue 9 out of the bottom 5 of the guideway and have the upper end of said tongue curved upward to form a spring stop. 10, which is normally above the plane of the bottom 5 of the guideway. During the discharging operation the stop 10 may be held out of the path of the cartridges by the finger of the operator, or by means of a pin or other suitable tool provided for the purpose.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that my device is simple in construction, being made entirely of a single piece of metal, is eflicientin operation, and is capable of being accurately and quickly placed in position for operation.

Having now described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cartridge holder formed of a single piccc of metal. the sides of which are bent to provide flanges forming a guide way, the width of said flanges atone terminal being reduced to form shoulders, whereby said flanges may ex tend into the magazine of a fire arm.-

2. A cartridge holder formed of a single piece of metal one end of which is transversely curved, the sides of said holder being bent to provide flanges forming a guide way, the width of said flanges being reduced adjacent said curved ond, whereby said flanges may extend into the magazine of a flre arm.

3. A cartridge holder forined of a single piece of metal, the sides of which are bent to provide flanges forming a guide way. one end of said holder being bent into said guide way and under the extremities of said flanges.

4. A cartridge holder formed of a single piece of metal, the sides of which are bent to provide flanges forming a guide way, one end of said holder being bent into said guide way and under the extremities of said flanges. said holder being slit to form a resilient tongue extending into said guide way.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AARON L. HOCKETT.

Witnesses 3 JOHN KENT, I. P. KENT. 

